Bay Area Bike to Wherever Days are Coming in May Bay Area Bike to Wherever Days are Coming in May PR Newswire SAN FRANCISCO, April 13, 2021 SAN FRANCISCO, April 13, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Bicycling has never been more popular across the region and May brings the return of Bike Month and […]
days
All public schools must start offering in-person learning five days a week as of Monday, April 19, Gov. Chris Sununu has announced. Administrators are being given 2 1/2 weeks’ notice of the change so they can make the necessary adjustments, the governor said. “We want to get kids back into […]
It’s been quite a year since experts told us that they needed only 15 days to flatten the economy, er, I mean flatten the curve. Here are the top 15 dumbest and most bizarre recommendations made by government officials, health officials and the media over the last year. 15) No […]
NORMAL, Ill. (AP) — Illinois State University sophomore Jasminh Randall, a finance major from Rockford, was planning to spend her spring break in Cancun with her three roommates. But instead of catching some sun in Mexico, the four of them were playing games on the second floor of the Bone […]
This article is published in partnership with TexasTribune.org. As many Texas universities take the extraordinary step of canceling or significantly reducing spring break during the pandemic, some schools are hosting on-campus events and continuing the weeklong break in March despite concerns about college students using the time to travel and […]
Amid a pandemic and piles of snow, more than a dozen Long Island school districts have opted to provide remote online lessons for students during winter storms, rather than shutting down for a day or two. The switch from traditional “snow days” to “remote days,” while controversial, makes perfect sense, […]
The long downturn that accompanied the 2008 financial crisis was brutal for U.S. states and municipalities, and some were only just back on their feet when the COVID-10 pandemic began, shuttering economies, sidelining workers, and costing big bucks for emergency personnel, health care and more. This downturn is likely to […]
Online travel agent Lastminute.com has been threatened with court action by the competition watchdog for failing to pay out refunds to thousands of customers. The company vowed to make £7million of payments by the end of January to 9,000 people who had holidays cancelled due to the pandemic under a […]
School districts can avoid having to make-up snow days be allowing students to go online ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. — Some area school districts had a snow day on Wednesday while others were in-session. In other school districts, students stayed home and went to school online. COVID-19 has forced school […]
How to Completely Make Over Your Life in Just 28 Days Marisa Cohen, Kaitlyn Pirie 3 hrs ago Start fresh this year! Take a deep breath and dive into all the little […]
Salt, sugar, and a slab of fish. This, truly, is the full list of ingredients you need to make cured salmon at home. But, if you’re so inclined, you can absolutely make things a touch more interesting. Spices, spirits, herbs, and other flavorful ingredients, such as fresh beets or horseradish, […]
How will America look after all this is over? Under normal times, Wednesday would be just another day. Congressional certification of the electoral college winner is nothing new. Neither is a presidential oath-taking. Both are ceremonial formalities that memorialize politically settled events. Likewise, political protests on any given day and […]
If you visit Hagley Park in the West Midlands of England and make it to the big 18th-century house of the Lyttelton family, walk another half-mile to the east and you’ll come upon an exotic and impressive sight once you clear the trees. In front of you is what seems […]
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — As a boy growing up in Kingsley, Adam Zellmer remembers winter school cancellations as carefree days filled with sledding, snowball fights and snow forts. Now, as superintendent of South Hardin Community Schools, Zellmer starts inclement winter mornings by driving the roads of Hardin County at […]
I live in Nazareth, Pennsylvania which is about 1hr and 30 minutes each way between New York City and Philadelphia. I’m married with a one-year-old daughter, and my wife and I have lived here our entire lives. We had a couple of vacations cancelled because of the COVID-19 pandemic and […]
CHELMSFORD, MA — During a normal year, news of a snowstorm heading for Chelmsford would bring the prospect that school could be canceled. But with online learning amid the coronavirus pandemic, that prospect has dimmed somewhat. This year, the state is allowing school districts to pivot to virtual learning instead […]
New York City is bracing for a winter storm on Wednesday and Thursday, but Mayor Bill de Blasio has a message for public school kids and parents: They’ll be online learning remotely as the snow comes down, “whether they are happy about it or not.” And the Big Apple isn’t […]
“We haven’t forgotten that they’re human,” he said. In this year that has upended so many school traditions, Westport students are far from the only ones who are losing their beloved snow days. Brookline, Cambridge, Lawrence, Lynn, Medford, Milton, Newton, and Quincy — some of the many districts that plan […]
“Snow day.” These two words have charmed New York children for generations, conjuring thoughts of sledding down Central Park’s Pilgrim Hill or building snowmen at Forest Park in Queens; of strapping on ice skates and heating up hot chocolate. But as school districts adapt to the pandemic by moving classes […]
The Christmas-bubble window should be extended to include ‘travel days’ to prevent chaos on the roads and railways, a campaign group has urged. The Campaign for Better Transport group has warned the current guidance, which says people have to do all their travelling within the five days from December 23 […]
Between concerns about schools staying open and the challenges of learning remotely, teachers and students are haunted by another question that goes beyond 2020: Will snow days disappear forever? Schools invested in both the know-how and technology to teach students remotely. In the midst of a pandemic, they had no […]
“Having those snow days is part of the tradition of being a student, being a teacher,” said Tom Vontz, the director of the Master of Arts in Teaching program at Kansas State University. In this 2013 photo, students at Wilbur Middle School unload from buses in the snow. The Wichita […]